Globe & Mail walks back two years of hysterical covid fear-mongering

After two years of relentless fear-mongering, the Globe today gives four full pages to what until yesterday were considered conspiracy theories. I had to double check to see if maybe Joe Rogan or RFK Jr wrote it. Among the stunning claims:

• vaccine testing prior to approval was rushed and not fit for purpose

• vaccines have far less efficacy than claimed by drug companies

• natural immunity far more effective than vaccination

• doctors and scientists with legitimate alternative views were censored and silenced

• the Great Barrington Declaration got it right in October of 2020

• 303 studies confirm that Dr Donald Trump was right about hydroxychloroquine

• there are more vaccinated than unvaccinated in our hospitals and ICUs

In other words, the “master narrative” the Globe and Mail was so instrumental in creating and promoting was mostly a load of hooey from the beginning.

This is a most remarkable change of direction. Makes you wonder what media truth is gonna disappear next...

Putin and/or Xi not interested in world domination after all?

Fossil fuels are your friend?

Exceptional Nation not so exceptional?

The mind boggles...

Correcting vaccine falsehoods (brought to you by Pfizer)

The top ‘o the op-ed page in today’s Globe goes to Timothy Caulfield; Correcting falsehoods isn’t cancel culture.

Mr Caulfield, we are told, is Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. He has a bee in his bonnet over those gosh-darned anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers like Aaron Rogers, Joe Rogan, and “disgraced American virologist Robert Malone.”

Rogan had the disgraced guy on his show recently. I personally don’t have the attention span to follow a three hour interview, but apparently 11 million others did. That’s a gargantuan number for anything found on American screens, easily eclipsing all cable news platforms combined. Obviously, pandemic scepticism is growing, two full years into this circus.

I like to check out the affiliations of the thought leaders who appear on the op-ed page. I googled "corporate partnerships u of alberta."

Oh, what a surprise! There’s Pfizer! Along with fellow pharma bigs Merck and J & J! Root around a little more on the old googlator and you’ll find the pharma partners are worth tens of millions to the U of A!

Check out this Wikipedia page, List of largest pharmaceutical settlements.

All of U Alberta’s pharma partners are on it!

Pfizer is on it twice!

And that list ends in 2012. Here’s an updated accounting of Pfizers many regulatory challenges since 2000. Over ten billion in fines for their many shenanigans in the past twenty years!

So who are you gonna believe?

An NFL quarterback, or a guy whose employer takes money from Pfizer?